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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language,
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:10:33 -0500
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"Natasha Kerensikova" <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu> wrote in message 
news:slrnlq55o1.i0l.lithiumcat@nat.rebma.instinctive.eu...
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> If their current real projects target Android UI, iOS, "smart home", SDR
> boards, etc, after having played with Ada they would reluctantly shelf
> it in favor of a language that actually does the job. Just like me in my
> hypothetical alternate history above.

Sadly, most of those environments are closed or practically so and will 
never have a place for Ada for that reason. (Apple doesn't really allow 
other languages in the app store, so there's almost no point in building an 
iOS app in Ada, even if it is technically possible. And so it goes.) Not to 
mention that a less structured language has an advantage in an environment 
where trial-and-error is the only way that software can be developed. (The 
truly bad thing is that even when an app is good enough, the authors think 
that they have to improve it, which of course leads to it becoming much 
worse over time. I find that I had to get different apps for my new phone 
because the latest versions of some of the old mainstays have become 
unusable, no longer doing the one thing that they were downloaded for.)

                                            Randy.